If You Build it, They Will Come: “Knievel” from Freeland Motorcycles… The Honda CJ360T appeared in 1976 as a stripped-down bare-bones version of the CB/CL360 twins. It had a five-speed transmission instead of six, no […]
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Custom Fighter: Honda Hornet 600 Custom
FVT 12: Twin-Seat CB600F from Francis Von Tuto… In 1998, Honda launched their CBR600F-powered naked bike, the Hornet 600. Built in Italy, the bike featured a re-tuned version of the last-gen CBR supersport engine, a […]
Baby Mad Max: Honda Hornet 600 Custom
Honda CB600F Hornet by Revel Customs… In the late 1990s, there was a small boom in four-cylinder naked middleweights. The big Japanese manufacturers wanted a slice of the Suzuki Bandit 600 market, and Honda’s answer […]
“Single Malt” Café Racer
TIME:Cycles builds a Hero Hunk café racer for a pro footballer… The Hero Hunk is a 150cc commuter bike from Hero — a brand formerly known as Hero Honda, which began as a joint venture […]
La Bambina: Rally-Ready Honda CRF450RX Custom
Hand-painted Honda ready for La Ruta Del Nabab… The Honda CRF450RX is Big Red’s big-bore competition off-road racer designed for closed-course GNCC, NGPC, and WORCS events. Unlike the green-sticker trail-legal CRF450X, the RX looks much […]
Rally Raider: Honda Dominator 650 Rally Bike
NX650 Desert Thumper from Manara Artwork… We’ve long said that many of our favorite bike-builders have racing backgrounds. Motorcycle racers tend to have a deep knowledge of geometry and mechanics, but racing doesn’t always […]
Primo Brown: Honda NX650 Scrambler
Patina Pony: Dominator 650 Scrambler from Emporio Elaborazioni Meccaniche… Surely no one at Honda knew the Honda NX650 Dominator — a single-cylinder, plastic-clad adventure bike — would become a darling of the customs scene […]
Changeling: Honda Hornet 600 “Retro Racer”
Custom Hornet 600 by Seb Kustom Motorcycle… Introduced in 1998, the Honda CB600F Hornet was a naked sports bike that featured a 599cc liquid-cooled inline four from the CBR600F3 sports bike — a machine that […]
ClubSport Light: Honda CB450 Café Racer
Honda CB450 Café Racer from Mile Zero Racers… Back in 2022, we shared the first build from a young builder out of Rochester, New York: Thomas Manno of Mile Zero Racers. We were highly […]
Honda XR628R: Street-Legal Baja Tribute
Hot Rod XR from Italy’s GPgarage Moto… Introduced in 1985, the Honda XR600R was destined to become one of the most successful off-road bikes in motorcycling history. The air-cooled thumper would win the Baja 1000 […]
